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“Without congressional intervention, we risk not being able to make payroll and will have to take drastic actions to keep the agency afloat,” the leader of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services wrote to employees.
Hollywood still remains largely shut down despite some regions of the United States encouraging citizens to go about “reopening” amid the coronavirus pandemic. Timelines for pretty much everything remain uncertain, and in the movie industry we learned on Tuesday that the Oscars may be postponed as a result of the various juggled release dates and productions still shut down across the industry.
We also learned, however, of a title that may be the first to start filming despite Stay At Home orders and public health concerns still keeping most on lockdown. According to Deadline, a Michael Bay production hopes to begin filming in Los Angeles in as little as five weeks. The movie, titled Songbird, reportedly takes place two years into the future in a world still beset by disease and largely on lockdown.
Former Paramount production chief Adam Goodman’s Invisible Narratives has teamed with Michael Bay to produce Songbird, a pandemic thriller that plans to take an unusual approach to shooting a movie in Los Angeles during the lockdown. It will begin production within five weeks, and might be the first film to shoot in the city.
The film will be directed by Adam Mason (Into The Dark), who wrote the script with Simon Boyes (Misconduct). The filmmakers are providing remote training for the actors. None of the participants would say exactly how they plan to shoot a movie at a time when the guilds are still compiling their own safety protocols so that production can resume.
Financing for the “low budget” film is reportedly secure, and the various guilds involved have apparently given the go-ahead but there are many unknowns about exactly how it will film and who will be on location. The Deadline piece compares the film to Cloverfield, which had a distinctly found footage style. The piece indicates that casting is underway, so it remains unknown who will be involved in the film, but it would be one of the first properties to come out of quarantine and given the subject matter seems a direct result of the last few months of our existence.
Rob Kenney’s dad left his family when he was 12. One of eight kids, Kenney went to live with his older brother when he was 14, spending his teenage and young adult years without a father to guide him.
Now a father of two grown children himself, Kenney is offering others the fatherly wisdom and skills he had to gain on his own. His YouTube channel “Dad, How Do I?” shares videos on everyday practical things most people might ask their dad like the proper way to tie a tie, how to unclog a sink and how to check the car oil. Since it was launched April 1, the channel has exploded in popularity.
In fact, a Facebook post shared by Chris Hart from this morning describing Kenney’s “Practical ‘Dadvice'” channel has gone incredibly viral, pushing Kenney even further into Internet Fame territory. Eight hours ago, when the post was shared, Kenney’s YouTube channel had 41,700 subscribers. That number has currently grown to 324,000.
Clearly, Kenney has tapped into a real need. In an interview with WICU on May 13, Kenney explained what prompted him to start “Dad, How Do I?”
“I come from a fractured home, and so my goal in life was to raise good adults and so then when I got to, you know, early 50s, I’d felt like I’d already done that. Now what? I still got a lot of life to live. So if I could pass some of what I have learned, to help people…and it’s it’s definitely resonating. I’m getting such amazing comments from people. I’m humbled by it.”
Kenney runs the channel with his daughter who calls him with questions on “adulting” all the time.
“Obviously there’s a lot more to being a dad than being able to screw in a light bulb or whatever,” he explained. “We talk about all kinds of things—finances, and what do you do with this, and what do you do with that.” He said he’s trying to figure out how to cover some of those subjects, and may branch out into doing a podcast.
Kenney has been blown away by the responses to his channel and how it’s touched people. “I was just thinking I was going to be showing people how to do stuff. But it’s resonated on such a different level,” he told WICU.
“Some of the emotional responses I’ve gotten from people who don’t have fathers, or didn’t have a relationship with their father, or have lost their father, you know, and they’ve said they watched my videos in tears, just being reminded of missing their dad. It’s amazing.”
What a beautiful way to turn something you didn’t have into a gift for so many. Well done, Dad.
At this point, Kenney releases a video a week. Here’s his first video:
How to tie a tie.
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You can also check out his most recent video “How to fix most running toilets:”
How to fix most running toilets.
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The Last Dance was wildly entertaining, but it has received plenty of criticism for being more Michael Jordan propaganda than documentary. Given that Jordan had final say on if the footage from the 1997-98 season got released, it’s not surprising that he had a hand in the production and that he was the central focus.
Media critics aren’t alone in pointing out questions of journalistic integrity with the documentary, as some of Jordan’s teammates are not pleased with their portrayals in the series. Scottie Pippen has not spoken publicly since the series started and is reportedly upset with how he’s been made out to look, with Jordan calling him selfish for delaying surgery in 1997 and them highlighting him sitting on the bench at the end of Game 3 against the Knicks in the 1994 Playoffs. Given Pippen’s stature on those teams, it’s understandable why he wouldn’t be thrilled with the selections chosen for the documentary, and he’s not alone.
Horace Grant has long had a fairly contentious relationship with Michael Jordan, stemming mainly from Jordan’s insistence that Grant was the chief source for Sam Smith’s book, The Jordan Rules. Grant denied that in the documentary, but recently joined ESPN 1000 in Chicago for an interview and offered some more full thoughts on that accusation, as well as the various places he took issue with The Last Dance and called Jordan a liar who can’t let go of a grudge, as transcribed by ESPN’s Nick Freidell.
“Lie, lie, lie. … If MJ had a grudge with me, let’s settle this like men,” Grant said during the interview. “Let’s talk about it. Or we can settle it another way. But yet and still, he goes out and puts this lie out that I was the source behind [the book]. Sam and I have always been great friends. We’re still great friends. But the sanctity of that locker room, I would never put anything personal out there. The mere fact that Sam Smith was an investigative reporter. That he had to have two sources, two, to write a book, I guess. Why would MJ just point me out?
“It’s only a grudge, man. I’m telling you, it was only a grudge. And I think he proved that during this so-called documentary. When if you say something about him, he’s going to cut you off, he’s going to try to destroy your character.”
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“Charles Barkley, they’ve been friends for over 20, 30 years,” Grant said. “And he said something about Michael’s management with the Charlotte Bobcats or the Charlotte Hornets, and then they haven’t spoken since then. And my point is, he said that I was the snitch, but yet and still after 35 years he brings up his rookie year going into one of his teammate’s rooms and seeing coke, and weed and women. My point is: Why the hell did he want to bring that up? What’s that got to do with anything? I mean, if you want to call somebody a snitch, that’s a damn snitch right there.”
The Barkley anecdote refers to the recent feud between former friends that Barkley believes won’t ever be resolved and that it makes him “really sad” to this day. Grant would go on to call The Last Dance a “so-called documentary” because it told the story from just one viewpoint, Michael’s, and also took issue with the portrayal of Pippen, questioning why they had to include the bench incident given Jordan wasn’t even there.
The documentary served its purpose in a few ways, most notably bringing Jordan back to the forefront of the sports discussion and giving everyone something to watch and enjoy for a month when we all really needed that. However, it was very obviously a Jordan documentary first and foremost, and a Bulls documentary second. As such, Jordan’s teammates, particularly those that were most prominent and played the biggest roles in helping them win all those championships, feel rightfully slighted by it and aren’t thrilled with the perspective given.
As casting news for season two of The Mandalorian has been flying in fast and furious, one of the most surprising and welcomed additions was the announcement that Timothy Olyphant would be joining the hit Star Wars series. While details around Olyphant’s role have been under wraps, /Film reportedly learned some interesting info that would directly connect the Justified actor to a fan-favorite bounty hunter.
None of this is confirmed, but according to /Film sources, Olyphant was spotted on set wearing Boba Fett’s armor, which is an interesting piece of information considering it’s been widely reported that Temuera Morrison is almost definitely playing Fett. So what does that mean for Olyphant’s character? /Film has a pretty interesting theory:
If Morrison is playing the role of Boba Fett, then Timothy Olyphant is playing an enigmatic character named Cobb Vanth. Introduced in Chuck Wendig’s Aftermath book series, Vanth is the self-appointed sheriff of the Tatooine-based settlement Freetown. He wears a mysterious set of Mandalorian armor that was acquired from Jawas who scavenged the wreckage of Jabba the Hutt’s sail barge shortly after the events of Return of the Jedi. As you may recall, that was the site of a battle where Boba Fett was thrown into the Sarlacc Pit on Tatooine’s Dune Sea. It’s assumed that the Mandalorian armor purchased by Vanth is none other than the infamous green armor formerly worn by one of the galaxy’s most notorious bounty hunters, Boba Fett.
/Film posits that the mysterious character who appears at the end of the season one episode “The Gunslighter” might actually be Cobb Vanth and not Boba Fett as fans have theorized. As for the reliability of their source, the site was the first to break the news on Rosario Dawson joining the cast as Ahsoka and that Katee Sackhoff will play a live-action version of her Clone Wars character Bo-Katan.
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After two weeks with record-low audiences, Raw broke out of its slump last Monday, gaining more viewers the night after Money In The Bank. However, that increase didn’t become a trend. According to data from Showbuzz Daily, fewer people tuned in to Raw this week, and the episode drew the program’s second-smallest live cable audience in its history.
This week’s Raw, which featured a brand-to-brand invitational match between Drew McIntyre and King Corbin, the return of Kevin Owens, and a kickass recorder performance by Kairi Sane, was viewed by an average of 1.76 million people over its three-hour run time. The first hour was viewed by 1.82 million people, the second by 1.81, and the third by 1.64.
The Raw with the lowest viewership ever is still the episode from two weeks ago, which was viewed by 1.69 million people, but the May 18 Raw now holds the second-place spot, bumping the Christmas 2018 episode, which had 1.78 million viewers.
Like last week, last night’s Raw was the highest-rated show on cable, but it drew lower ratings with 18-49-year-old viewers than that episode. The first two hours of the program both scored an 0.53 rating and the third hour an 0.48, down from 0.59, 0.58, and 0.53 the previous week. The episode occupied the first, second, and fifth-highest ranks in the ratings, with 90 Day Fiancé occupying the third and fourth slots.
High school and college seniors of the class of 2020 have been robbed of a traditional graduation ceremony due to COVID-19. While that obviously isn’t the worst thing that has happened as a result of the global pandemic, it’s still rough for the people who find the ceremony important. If it’s any consolation to grads, you got an Obama commencement speech out of it and now Krispy Kreme wants to give you a dozen free donuts.
For today only, all college and high school seniors can roll up to any Krispy Kreme and receive a specially curated Graduate Dozen completely free with no purchase necessary. All you have to do is show up wearing a cap and gown or some other Class of 2020 paraphernalia and you’ll be able to claim a free dozen donuts — creme-filled with chocolate or strawberry icing, cake batter filled, original glazed with yellow icing, or mixed.
“We feel for all of the high school and college seniors,” chief marketing officer Dave Skena said in a statement to Thrillist. “We wish they had that moment of walking across the stage and getting their diploma, we can’t replace that… but we thought we could help them safely have a little fun and enjoy a special ‘Graduate Dozen’ on us.”
If you aren’t a graduate, but you want to surprise someone who is with a box, Krispy Kreme is offering the Graduate Dozen to all customers for purchase via drive-thru or the Krispy Kreme mobile app for pickup or delivery.